Well, I figured out my problem, and I know this
problably is the wrong alias but may some one else
know a work around or it might be helpful to some one else.
I found a neat little javascript that checks the length
of a form field:
var postmaxchars = 3999;
function validate(theform) {
if (theform.reply.value=="") {
alert("Please complete the message field.");
return false; }
if (postmaxchars != 0) {
if (theform.reply.value.length > 3999) {
alert("Reduce your message to 3999 characters. It is currently " + theform.reply
..value.length + " characters long.");
return false; }
else { return true; }
} else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
if (postmaxchars != 0) { message = "The maximum permitted length is 3999
characters."; }
else { message = ""; }
alert("Your message is "+theform.reply.value.length+" characters long."+
message);
}
The only problem is it counts carriage returns as 1 character
where as perl length() counts them as 2. And DBI automatically
considers anything over 4000 as a LONG.
Any javascript experts out there?
